Timeout on read()?

[David Bolen]

Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> writes:

> On the other hand, for good cross-platform solution, you can
> use the "select" module. 

Are you sure?  I'm fairly certain that on Windows, the select.select()
function will only work for sockets, since it's layerd right on top of
Winsock.

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